How to Use breastbone in a Sentence

breastbone

noun

• Cut the chicken in half along the breastbone and place in a large bowl.
  — Multiple Authors, House Beautiful, 1 Sep. 2010
• The shock was like a punch to my breastbone from the inside out.
  — Kimberly Rex, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
• The Breastbone Linger around the chest and find his breastbone.
  — Redbook, 30 Oct. 2017
• Press firmly against the breastbone with the heel of your hand.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2023
• The cancer was found on his face and near his breastbone.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2018
• The bricks fractured his breastbone, bruised his head and broke his ribs.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
• Pull the legs apart, place your hands on the breasts, and press firmly, cracking the breastbone so the bird lays flat.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2023
• Place the heel of one hand 2 inches from the breastbone, closest to the person's face.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 5 June 2019
• The center of the bra lays completely flat against the breastbone.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 27 Apr. 2022
• The joint is the meeting point between the collarbone and the breastbone.
  — Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2022
• This is it: memorize their breath and the stretch of your limbs and their sweat on your breastbone.
  — Ella Dawson, Longreads, 18 May 2020
• Flip the chicken, open it like a book, and press firmly on the breastbone to flatten.
  — EW.com, 18 June 2021
• Turn chicken over and, using the ball of your hand, push on the breastbone to flatten.
  — Kate Merker, Country Living, 20 June 2021
• Finally, align the big knife along the breastbone and give a hard slice down, cutting the breasts in two.
  — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2017
• This feeling rises from behind the breastbone to the bottom of the throat.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Feb. 2024
• Using a rolling pin or your hands, press it firmly to break the breastbone and flatten the bird.
  — Georgeanne Brennan, House Beautiful, 25 Oct. 2010
• Getting Ready to Slice Remove the breast meat from either side of the breastbone.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 28 Aug. 2020
• Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 2018
• Next, make a vertical cut along the top of the corresponding breastbone, from the neck to the back.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 28 Aug. 2020
• With a sharp knife, cut through the breastbone and spread out the chicken halves, leaving the backbone intact.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• Flip chicken over, and press down on the breastbone to flatten it even further.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
• Then cut down between the breastbone to divide the breast, then cut each breast crosswise in half (two of the pieces will have the wings attached).
  — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Layered over that was a diaphanous white chiffon cape that fell to about the breastbone in the front and opened at the sides to allow the skin of bare arms to peek through.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The structured neckline, with buttons that start at the breastbone, was a provocative choice.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• Dot falls back onto the kitchen sofa as though someone had reached out a palm and pushed on her breastbone.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Turn chicken, breast side up, and press firmly against breastbone with the heel of your hand until bone cracks.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 21 June 2023
• Symptoms include a feeling of burning behind the breastbone that can move up to the neck.
  — Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• The surgeons had made the long incision down the middle of the child’s chest, cut the breastbone to spread the rib cage and reach the heart when the lights went out at the Heart Institute in Kyiv.
  — Oleg Matsnev Marc Santora Thomas Gibbons-Neff Alan Rappeport Marc Santora Richard Pérez-Peña John Ismay Gaia Pianigiani Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• In the crowded operating room, the surgeons had made the long incision down the middle of the child’s chest, cut the breastbone to spread the rib cage and reach the heart.
  — Natalia Yermak, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• Waters pushed up his sweaty T-shirt to expose his chest and began briskly pushing on his breastbone.
  — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024